Cool Hand Luke

[steveno]

her name was Joy Harman

 

[vytoland]

Delete the "a'" out of the quote and your 100% correct.

Fixed it for ya.

what weve GOT here is....failure to communicate.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=452XjnaHr1A

 

[rwsmith]

One great movie....

CHL was one great movie. I'm sure there are other fine actors that could do the 'captain' role, but Strother Martin did it perfectly. 'What we have here..." is one of the great lines in movies. That and the egg eating stunt were the parts people remember most about it, along with the car wash.

 

[snubbyfan]

It's: "Im shakin it boss..........still shakin it boss."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7QwTTn3FIk

 

[RonJ]

I don't like prison movies. I haven't seen the Green Mile or the Shawshank Redemption and avoid every prison movie. Gives me the heebee jeegees!! I've always tried to be honest because real prison would kill me.

 

[Roadtrash]

If they brought those old prison farms back you wouldn't see near as much crime.

 

[WardenRoss]

Donn Pearce, who wrote the book "Cool Hand Luke" actually served time on a Florida road gang.

Donn Pearce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I can tell you, from first hand experience, that story of CHL is accurate and true to life. I get actually get a charge each time I watch it. Brings back a lot of memories.

Days gone by.

 

[chud333]

A very cool movie and one of my favorites of all time also.
Newman was just cool period. Kennedy was his usual stellar
"big bad guy but with a heart" and Strother Martin although
not a big part in the movie, made his mark.
They need to round up all the so called "protestors" in
Ferguson MO. and send them to spend a week or two on
a southern Chain Gang.


Chuck

 

[jubela#4]

Great movie and a lot of classic lines came out of it as well.

What about: "What's your dirt doing in the bossman's yard?"

 

[perfectcircle1]

Cool band Luke is the name of a gun shop in the one of the towns near mine...

 

[the ringo kid]

Actor Wayne Rogers is really the picture of rehabilitation. He's on a southern chain gang in his youth, eventually becomes a doctor working a MASH unit in Korea, and ends up an expert on the stock market on FOX NEWS. Amazing!

Only one thing wrong with that statement--Korea was before his term in prison.

 

[the ringo kid]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7QwTTn3FIk

Nobody ever told me that my memory was 100% accurate.

 

[the ringo kid]

I don't like prison movies. I haven't seen the Green Mile or the Shawshank Redemption and avoid every prison movie. Gives me the heebee jeegees!! I've always tried to be honest because real prison would kill me.

Hi Ron, try some of these on for size--you will start liking them.

1) I am a fugitive from a chain gang. Paul Muni.
2) Brute Force. Burt Lancaster & Hume Cronyn.
3) White Heat. James Cagney.
4) Birdman of Alcatraz. Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Telly Savaslas Len Lesser and
5) Escape From Alcatraz. Clint Eastwood,
6) Alcatraz: The whole Shocking Story. Telly Savalas.

War time PW escape movies:

1) The Great Escape--I CANT imagine nobody admitting never seeing it before?
2) The Colditz Story. John Mille, Eric Portman, Lionel Jeffries, Anton Differing and
3) The Wooden Horse. Leo Genn.
4) Bridge Over the River Kwai. Hayakawa, Holden, Guiness etc.
5) Prisoner of War. Ronald Wilson Reagan, Harry Morgan, Steve Forrest etc.
6) The Password is Courage. Dirk Bogarde.
7) Andersonville.

Just a few off the top o my head. Watch any of the earlies w/Cagney, Bogie and Edw G. Robinson and you cant miss out.

 

[the ringo kid]

If they brought those old prison farms back you wouldn't see near as much crime.

Actually, here in Texas they still have chain gangs. You also have at least four officers on horseback-per chain gang set--and those guys you dont want to mess around with.

 

[rwsmith]

You mean........???

Actually, here in Texas they still have chain gangs. You also have at least four officers on horseback-per chain gang set--and those guys you dont want to mess around with.

The men with no eyes?!? Yeah, I wouldn't recommend playing around with them.

 

[the ringo kid]

The men with no eyes?!? Yeah, I wouldn't recommend playing around with them.

Actually, dark sunglasses is part of their uniform. So are:.357s, shotguns and also 30-30s.